Category Archives: Food Philosophy

7 Things that Suck About Being Vegetarian

I say a lot of great things about being vegetarian.  I even listed 75 of them once. And why not? Since I stopped eating meat, I've achieved fitness goals---qualifying for ...

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Answers to Your Questions about Protein, Chia, Flax, Soy and Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition

People ask me a lot of questions by email. When they want me to make an entire diet plan for them, I ignore them.  When they ask "Do You Want Natural Love Muscle Enhance?" I delete them. But when they ask nice, short, interesting questions, I love answering email questions. And I got a whole slew ...

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Milk—It Does a (Baby Cow's) Body Good

This is a guest post from Courtney Carver at bemorewithless.com. Milk and most other dairy products are considered part of a vegetarian diet, but it's a fine line. I stopped eating all meat except for ...

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The First (Unexpected) Lesson from the Liquid Cleanse

A day and a half into my experiment with an all-liquid, water and green-vegetable juice cleanse, I've already learned something huge. It has nothing to do with alkalinity or raw food or how all I want to do right now is eat something (solid, for the love of god). It's just this: Real food is ...

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7 Days of Water, Green Vegetable Juice, and Urine Testing: Does It Get Any Better?

Call it post-race blues if you like.  It happened after qualifying for Boston, and now it's happening after running my first 50-mile ultramarathon. The story is the same: A planned week off of running turns into two (or three) weeks. And then I get into watching television shows, like the important Bachelorette. ...

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What the New Food Pyramid Means for Vegetarians

Post by Christine Frazier. This month the USDA released the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and it's out with the rigid 1992 food pyramid and in with a snazzy new vegetarian-friendly version.  Yep, vegetarian-friendly, and ready to hit America with what's been called a Michael Pollan-approach to eating better. [caption id="attachment_9980" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Remember this? ...

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A Conversation with Vegan Pro Ironman Triathlete Brendan Brazier about All Things Energy

Alright, you're going to love this one!  Last week I talked on the phone to Brendan Brazier, the vegan professional Ironman triathlete, author of Thrive and Thrive Fitness, and creator of the Vega line of sports nutrition products that I often review on No Meat Athlete.

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Clean Food: An Interview with Terry Walters

Terry Walters' Clean Food is the best cookbook I've used in a long time.  Why?  Mainly because it's full of recipes for real food. Clean Food isn't about pounding soy into various meat-shapes and pretending it doesn't taste like soy (which tastes, mostly, ...

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Gena from 'Choosing Raw'

While I relax with Erin and new baby Holden, several distinguished bloggers have been kind enough to guest-post here.  Next up is Gena, a nutritionist and raw-food enthusiast with one of the most informative blogs out there, Choosing Raw.  Here she is with an insanely helpful intro to raw foods and how they ...

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An Open Letter to My Unborn Baby

Dear Baby Fraz, I can't believe how close we are to meeting you in person.  Five weeks, the day of the Boston Marathon, assuming you don't jump the gun.  If you're like your mother, you'll probably leave yourself plenty of time, just in case you run into any delays on the way out.  If you're more ...

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